Audit IT Assurance Intern - Summer 2027

Grant Thornton
San Jose, California, United StatesPosted Sep 10, 2026
AccountingSummer 2027

About the role

POSITION SUMMARY

Attest Services-IT Intern

As an IT Audit Assurance Intern at Grant Thornton, your primary responsibility will be to delivering a full range of IT audit services to our clients. This includes testing and assessment of information systems control review engagements in support of financial statement audits. You will work alongside Partners, Managers, and Senior Executives as a member of the engagement team.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Applying current knowledge of IT trends and systems processes to identify

security and risk management issues, as well as other opportunities for overall process improvement.

  • Maintaining professionalism and rapport with the client. Proactively interact

with key client management to manage expectations, help ensure client satisfaction, meet client deadlines, and resolve any problems.

  • Gaining a comprehensive understanding of assigned client operations,

processes and business objectives, and then utilize that knowledge on assigned engagements.

  • Participating in recruiting efforts as needed.
  • To meet or exceed IT Assurance metrics (e.g. – billable hours, CPE, time

delinquencies, etc…)

  • Participating in other business development activities as appropriate
  • Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology,

MIS or related field. A Master’s degree is a plus.

  • Desire to pursue CPA, CISA, CISSP, CIA or CISM license/certification.
  • Some related work experience in public accounting or equivalent delivering

controls based services, auditing Information Technology General Controls (ITGC’s.) in support of financial statement audits to cross-industry clients and technologies. An understanding of generally accepted practices for testing Key Reports, and Application Controls a plus.

  • Information Security experience or information security training is required.
  • Exceptional client ser

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